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International - Bond's push pays off
Quantum of Solace firmly defended its position at the top of Screen's international chart, grossing $107.3m over the November 7-9 weekend, after expanding to over 10,000 engagements in 60 territories. Quantum held onto the top spot for the second week in France, Sweden and the UK, where it added $15.1m ...
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Italy - Home-Grown Heroes
For the past two years, Italy has been able to celebrate its national cinema on several fronts. Last year was a record year for local films, which grossed 31% of the overall box office, while 2008 has been a year of artistic recognition, with Paolo Sorrentino's Il Divo and Matteo ...
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Ron Howard to receive lifetime achievement award at Palm Springs
Ron Howard will receive the 20th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival's (PSIFF) Director's Lifetime Achievement Award on Jaunary 6.Howard's latest film Frost/Nixon will open through Universal on December 5 and follows a long line of credits that includes A Beautiful Mind, which earned him the Oscar in 2001, The ...
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Cinetic's CRM launches online venture with Amazon, CreateSpace
Cinetic Rights Management (CRM) has launched an online distribution venture with Amazon Video On Demand and CreateSpace DVD On Demand.Select titles will be made available to consumers exclusively as CRM and Amazon Video On Demand will curate a slate of approximately 20 films each month.The venture launched on November 13 ...
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Mickey Rourke gets American Riviera Award at Santa Barbara
Mickey Rourke, receiving rave reviews for his performance as a washed-up fighter in The Wrestler, will receive the 24th annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival's American Riviera Award on January 30.Rourke will join a pantheon of previous recipients that includes Tommy Lee Jones, Forrest Whitaker, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Kevin Bacon ...
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Bregman's Likely Story to film The Amateur American with Ross Katz
Likely Story has acquired feature rights to the upcoming political thriller novel The Amateur American and set Ross Katz to adapt the screenplay and direct.New York-based Likely Story and the production company's founder Anthony Bregman will produce the story based on J Saunders Elmore's novel about a young American in ...
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Jay Fukuto named head of studio at Film Roman
Jay Fukuto has been promoted to head of studio at animation creators Film Roman and will oversee the company's animation production operations for features, home entertainment, TV and visual effects.Fukuto most recently served as head of production for Film Roman and will report directly to by Kent Rice, the CEO ...
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Fabrica to relaunch as commercial venture
Italian production outfit Fabrica Cinema, currently funded by clothing retailer Benetton, plans to relaunch next spring as a financially autonomous, market-oriented company under the banner Fabrica Cinema e Televisione.Fabrica head Marco Mueller said he is currently seeking investors that will include a banking partner, as well as Italian and European ...
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Bahamas Festival to close with Spike Lee's Miracle Of St Anna
Spike Lee's second world war saga Miracle At St Anna will close the fifth Bahamas International Film Festival (BIFF), which runs from December 4-11.'I am so pleased to be welcoming Spike Lee's wonderful film back to Nassau, Bahamas, as Miracle Of St Anna was shot on Rose Island,' festival founder ...
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Morgan Matthews' The Fallen wins audience award at Sheffield
The Sheffield Doc/Fest's audience award went to Morgan Matthews' The Fallen about servicemen and women killed in action while James Marsh's acclaimed tale of a tightrope walker Man On Wire was named runner-up as the event came to a close.Festival organisers said the event drew a record number of 1,545 ...
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Quantum Of Solace to hit six new territories including Mexico
Quantum Of Solace will race towards $250m in international markets this weekend and should cross $300m worldwide when 007 brings the mayhem to North America.MGM/Sony's latest entry in the James Bond canon has been on devastating form since it launched two weeks ago and has amassed more than $190.1m from ...
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GTH horror Coming Soon to Eastern Europe
Thailand's GMM Tai Hub (GTH) has announced a raft of AFM sales led by horror title Coming Soon, directed by Shutter co-scriptwriter Sophon Sakdaphisit, which sold to Mido Films Brno for the Czech Republic, Bir Film for Turkey and Queen Films for Indonesia. After opening Oct 30, the $1.2m film ...
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Sundance Institute names eight projects for Middle Eastern Lab
Sundance Institute has announced the eight participants in the recent fourth annual Middle East Screenwriters Lab run by the Royal Film Commission in Jordan in consultation with Sundance Institute.The five-day lab took place from October 14-19 and matched emerging film-makers with creative advisors.The projects and participants selected for the 2008 ...
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Russia dominates awards at FilmFestival Cottbus
Russian cinema was the big winner for the second year running at the FilmFestival Cottbus - Festival of East European Cinema (November 11-16) taking home six of the 12 awards presented at the weekend. The International Jury, which included the Israel Film Fund's Katriel Schory, Oscar-winning set designer Allan ...
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Japan claims top prizes at Mar Del Plata
Japanese films dominated the awards at the 23rd Mar del Plata Film Festival. Hirokazu Kore-eda received the Golden Astor prize for Still Walking, while Kiyoshi Kurosawa was named best director for Tokyo Sonata.A jury composed of actress/director Sarah Polley (Canada), director Peter Lilienthal (Germany), film-maker Pedro Olea (Spain), DoP Yu ...
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Little Deaths wins Australian Spartan Award for digital features
The romantic comedy Little Deaths has won the Spartan Award from a field of 22 feature entries in the annual digital feature initiative run by the Screen Producers Association of Australia (SPAA). The award was accepted by Melbourne-based executive producer Jason Byrne on Friday, the last day of the SPAA ...
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Manoel De Oliveira to make another film as he turns 100
Veteran Portuguese film maker Manoel De Oliveira will celebrate his 100th birthday on December 12 by shooting a new film, Singularidades De Uma Rapariga Loira, in his home country.Based on a 19th century short story by Jose Maria Eca De Queiros, Singularidades will star Ricardo Trepa as a young man ...
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Sony to step up Indian operations
Sony Entertainment Television (SET) is eyeing a grand entry into Bollywood after executives made a fact-finding mission to India last week.Sony executives led by Michael Grindon, chairman of Sony Television International, are now evaluating an entry into movie production as part of an expansion in exhibition and TV channels across ...
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Gabriele Muccino and Domenico Procacci to follow up Italian hit
Director Gabriele Muccino (Pursuit of Happyness) and Fandango producer Domenico Procacci (Gomorrah) are to produce an Italian language film together entitled Bacami Ancora (literally, Kiss Me Again) as a follow-up to their successful 2001 collaboration The Last Kiss (L'Ultimo Bacio). Shooting is slated for spring 2009 in Rome with ...